Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DEC) on NSF's Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope have obtained a spectacular image of the shell galaxy NGC 3923 with its symmetrical, onion-like layers.

The 3,200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera will reveal what so far has remained unseen and only exists in scientific theory -- dark matter and dark energy.

Using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera at NSF/NOIRLab Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, astronomers have produced a stunning image of the star-forming interstellar cloud Lupus 3.

Supernova (SN) 185 occurred in 185 CE in the direction of Alpha Centauri, between the constellations of Circinus and Centaurus.

An image from the Dark Energy Camera shows an act of galactic cannibalism, with a spiral galaxy devouring a nearby dwarf galaxy that wandered into its path.

15 images showcase the beauty and awesome size of the cosmos.

The swirling spiral arms of Messier 83, one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky, display a high rate of star formation and have been host to six observed supernovae.

Astronomers using the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have constructed a massive 1.3-gigapixel image of the Vela supernova remnant.

Astronomers using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera have captured a stunning photo of the massive barred spiral galaxy NGC 1532 and its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531.

Space is a big place, but that doesn't prevent galaxies from colliding with their nearby neighbors, especially as they grow over billions of years and larger galaxies consume smaller ones.

A new image from the Dark Energy Camera peels back the layers of a "galactic onion" whose shells extend 150,000 light-years across space.

The image of the tattered shell of the first recorded supernova was captured by the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, DECam. The camera is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF's NOIRLab.

The Dark Energy Camera has taken countless photos. Here are 15 of the most spectacular. The Dark Energy Camera has taken more than a million exposures of the southern sky while perched high in the Chilean Andes. Around 2.5 billion astronomical objects, including galaxies and galaxy clusters, stars

Using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, astronomers have captured this image of the grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 1566.

Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic tug of war between Haley's Coronet and its neighboring dwarf galaxy. The gravitational tussle is one the smaller galaxy...

The Vela supernova remnant looks breathtaking in this image from the powerful DECam, revealing intricacies in debris that resulted from the destruction of a ...

To commemorate DECam's first decade of discovery and exploration, astronomers have captured a stunning image of the Lobster Nebula.

NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy bigger than, but otherwise very similar to, our own. NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way's 'big brother'.

A beautiful image showing two interacting galaxies has been captured by a camera originally designed to study dark energy.

The Dark Energy Camera has imaged a ghostly hand claw reaching out to grab a distant galaxy. There's nothing supernatural about this structure known as...